Replacement flyhalf Pat Lambie kicked a penalty from his own half with a minute to go to deliver a breathless 27-25 win for South Africa over New Zealand on Saturday, the world champion’s first loss in two years. Lambie’s 55-meter kick settled a pulsating ...

England’s ambition of winning next year’s World Cup on home soil lay in ruins Saturday as they lost 36-13 in the third rugby test to a New Zealand team which completed a sweep of the three-test series and posted a world record 17th-straight test ...

Center Conrad Smith scored a 78th minute try to give New Zealand a 20-15 win over England in the first rugby test on Saturday, extending the All Blacks’ unbeaten record at Eden Park to 32 matches over 20 years. The match looked headed for ...

The All Blacks always talk of striving for perfection. They mean in performance. But they can achieve it another way on Sunday by becoming the first side in rugby’s professional era to win all their matches in a calendar year. New Zealand couldn’t have ...

New Zealand coach Steve Hansen has warned his new-look All Blacks to stick to the game plan ahead of their tour of Europe after going rogue for periods of Saturday’s 54-6 win over Japan. The All Blacks brushed past the Brave Blossoms with the ...

All Blacks captain Richie McCaw scored a try and flyhalf Dan Carter kicked 10 points as both players returned from injury to lead New Zealand to a comfortable 54-6 win over Japan on Saturday. Seven different All Blacks ran in eight tries as the ...

The Japan rugby team faces one of the hardest tasks in sport Saturday when it takes on the world champion All Blacks at the Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground. In 110 years, the New Zealand national team has played 508 tests and been victorious ...

Richie McCaw will lead New Zealand when it takes on Japan on Saturday, head coach Steve Hansen announced Thursday — although the most capped All Black in history will be playing at No. 8 rather than in his more accustomed No. 7 jersey. McCaw, ...

The world champion All Blacks arrived in Tokyo Monday for their first test match against Japan on Japanese soil and vowed to take nothing for granted. “It’s important that we start the tour well,” flyhalf Dan Carter said upon arrival at Tokyo’s Narita airport ...

The All Blacks are playing their first-ever away test against Japan in Tokyo on Saturday, but at club level the journey north is becoming familiar for more and more New Zealanders. The big-money lure of Japanese rugby’s Top League has persuaded an increasing number ...

The All Blacks took the outright lead in the Rugby Championship Saturday when they comprehensively beat South Africa 29-15 in a bitter contest between the heavyweights of world rugby. In a match marred by a red card for Springboks hooker Bismarck du Plessis, the ...